Bicycle-lantern



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P LEVISON BICYCLE LANTERN.

No. 436,528. Patented Sept. 16, 1890.

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BICYCLE LANTERN.

Patented Sept. 16. 1890.

Ill/"um UNITED STATES PHILIP LEvIsoN, or cIIIcAeo, ILLINoIs.

BICYCLE-LANTERN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 436,528, dated September 16, 189 1).

Application filed March 31 1890.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknownthat I, PHILIP LnvIsoN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bicycle-Lanterns,of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings. I I

This my invention relates to lanterns particularly intended for Safety bicycles; and it has for its object to provide such a lantern that will have a removable oil-reservoir so attached that it will be held rigid in the lantern and will not rattle from the motions of the bicycle; in which a conical or parabolic reflector is placed opposite to the lens so as to concentrate the rays of light upon the lens; which has provisions for igniting or extinguishing the light without opening the lantern, and which is provided 'with an adjustable clamp to be attached to bicycles of different construction and with spring-arms for supporting the lantern. \Vith these objects in view my invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices herein.- after described and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the lantern; Fig. 2, a transverse vertical section of the same. Fig. 2 is a detached view of a portion of the door or gate, showing the reservoir-holding spring expanded; Fig. 3, an inside view, the hinged front being-removed; and Fig. 4, a sectional plan of the lantern.

ig. 5 is a sectional interior view of the swinging gate for closing the opening through which to ignite or extinguish thewick, and Fig. 6 is a section of the screw-clamp for attaching the lantern to a bicycle.

Corresponding referential characters in the several figures of the drawings designate like parts.

The casing of the lantern consists of the cylindrical part 1 and the oval part 2, connected therewith, all formed of a single strip of sheet metal and closed in the rear by a single sheet seamed or soldered thereto. The oval portion 2 affords a. flat bottom for supporting the lanternwlien it is removed and set down and also gives a large oil-space. The front 3 of the lantern is provided with.

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flanges that overlap the front edge of casing 1 and 2, being secured by hinge 4 at the topso as to swing upward for opening, and with closing it'is locked b 1 a spring-clasp 5, engaging a ridge 6 of the bottom of easing 1. Into the circular portion of this front 3, a little "below the center thereof, is secured in a circular opening a conical ring 7 ,partly'extend- 'ing inward, and in its expanded outward end is inserted and secured the lens 8, which from above is protected by a projecting shield or deflector 9, secured to ring '7. Inside'thecasing 1 is secured a reflector 10, having aparabolic'shape, its pointed rear end extending through a small hole In the back of the casmg. top-coinciding with a similar hole in the top of easing 1, covered by a curved cap 11, and this again by a U-shapedcap 12, that isopen on both sides, both these caps 11 and 12 bein g secured upon casing 1 to allow the escape of the gases. This reflector 10 is also cutout in its bottom for clearing the wick, and it has This reflector 10 has an oval hole in its round holes in its sides to coincide each with a lens 13 of colored glass, secured over a proper opening of easing 1 in a ring 14, each forming a reflector-shield made flaring and cut away toward the rear, so that the lens cannot be seen from the front, but only from the side and rear of the lantern.

In the oval part 2 of the casing is removably inserted the similarly-shaped oil-reservoir 16, snugly fitting therein and having screwed in its top face the wick-holder 17 the stem of the adjusting-wheel 18 of which enters a slotted opening 19 of the casing to project from a notch in the rear end of such slotted opening with the handle-knob 21 of such stem to be exterior of the casing. To its front this oilreservoir 16 has a ring 22 hinged thereto to fold flat against it, byw'hich ring the reservoir can be pulled from out the cas- 3 and the front 3 has attached a suitable ing,

leaf-spring 23, which, with closing the front, J

will press against the end of the reservoir 16 for holding it by its tension against movingendwise: The slotted opening 19, is made sufficiently large for reaching through it with a burning match to ignitethe wick without opening the front or for blowing the'light out, and this'opening is closed ,by a plate 24; inside of the casing secured to a wire 25, pivotally projected through theeasing and having a crank-handle to its exterior end by which to swing such plate 24 for opening or closing this slot 19. The sides of the portion 20f the'casing are vertically slotted for admitting air to pass around the reservoir 16, and thence to the burning wick. Against the back of the casing is secured a plate 26, concaved in its middle for covering the pointed end of reflector and forming two eyes for engaging the rectangularly-bent ends'of two spirally? bent wires 27, the opposite ends of which are rigidlysecured each to a clamp-jaw 28, grooved and lined in its groove with-leather or rubber for engaging the bracket 29, that forms part of the bicycle-frame. Each jaw 28 has an eyed flange for a thumb-screw 30 to pass through the eye of one and abut with its head against the flange and being tapped through the eye of the other flange. 'By this means the lantern can be secured to bicycles of different size and construction by clamping the spring-wires 27, providing an elastic support for the lantern.

\Vhat I claim is 1. The combination, with the casing 1 and 2, the parabolic reflector 1.0 secured therein, and the front3, hinged to such casi n g, of colored lenses 13, secured to the sides of the casing, each provided with a flaring reflector projecting from the sides of such easing toward the front, top, and bottom of the lantern, substantially as set forth, for the purpose specified.

2. In a lantern, as and for the purpose described, the opening 19 and the plate '24, for closing such opening and secured to crank 25, pivoted in the casing, substantially as set forth.

3. Alantern forbicycles', supported on spiral spring-arms 27, each secured -to a clamp-jaw 28, and a thumb-screw 39 for contracting said clamp 'jaws, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof Iaflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PHILIP LEVISON. Witnesses:

WILLIAM II. Ilo'rz, OTTO LUEBKERT. 

